Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-03-18
SIDEW1LK PR1TTLE.

Nothing but mud.
No frost for ten DAYS.
The prairie is turning green.
Court conyenes next Thursday.
Still showing in the mountains.
Sherif fTalkington has been collecting
licenses and summoning jurymen.
c. A. Sears has his ad in this weeks
paper and solicts work in his line.
Business is in state of innocuous
desuetude-nearly down to bedrock.
A. d. Bartley is credited with having
the finest apple orchard on Camas
prairie.
A man who thinks he is right will
face the music, but coward dodges his
own shadow.
Will Schmadeka is going to build
new meat market this summer on the
north side of Main street.
The board of county examiners have
issued teachers permits to Miss Mamie
bTOckfndn anu Allcu
The only thing that prevents Camas
prairie from raising mammoth surplus
crop this year is the scarcity of seed
wheat.
Nearly every wagon coming to town
these days has enc or more plows
aboard, which helps keep the black
smiths busy.
Parties desiring dental work done will
find J. ii. McCallie at his Office in the
drug store every day between the hours
OF 8 A. NJ. and 4 P. NJ.
There was big racket in Lewiston's
Chinatown last week in which pistols,
axes and knives were literally used. A
petticoat c4used the trouble. -...-
Four claims haye changed hands in
the last few weeks through our real
estate agency. If you want to buy, sell
or relinquish, call and see us.
Messrs. Pearson and Noyes will build
carpenter shop for their own use this
spring on the south side of Main street,
adjoining Davis blacksmith shop.
Mr.. Wall was over from Clearwater
Tuesday and told us the cattle on that
side pulled through the winter in fine
shape; his own losses were only three,
and one of those was killed by falling
tree.
Take your last look at the editors ad
of the Bar B" brand, for after this issue
you will see it no more. The hard win
ter knocked out the whole brand, the
loss being 100 per cent. The summer
range is now for sale Apply within.
Congress adjourned March 4. bu
owing to the blockade on Craig's noun
tain we had no news of it until yester
day. 1t is one of the advantages of liv
ing in an isolated, back-woods countr,
like this that the world might come t,
an end and we not hear of it till TIA
excitement is all oyer.
No mail has arrived since last Friday
Five pack horses and three drivers LEI
Cottonwood Monday morning and q
last accounts were at Willow creek try
ing 10 break road to Lewiston. On
of them tried TO cross on snow shoes
but the soft snow was too heavy for h in
and he had to return. A mail may
expected at any time.
Mr.. j. G. Stephens, who arrived her
from Missouri last fall and has bee
living across Clearwater all winter, hs
purchased the Nels Miller pre- ptio
: and the Holbrook timber culture claim
three miles west of Grangeville, an
moved onto his new possessions th
! week. He has also subscribed for tn
moral organ, and will be sure to thriv,
The Grangeville Chataqua circle no
:, numbers thirty-one members, and i
meetings grow in interest. Papers @
! the following subjects were read at tt
3 last seance: The drift period, by Mi
Mary G. Benedict; National museum
: Athens by Mrs. Hall; Selections frol
= English history by w. S. NJ. William
Bryant by rev. l.. T. Weeks; Than
topsis by S. E. Bibby.
; Judge Buck has appointed Fred
E Lucas as clerk of the First judicial dis
d rict, with headquarters at Murray. ii
deputy for Nez Perce county is Store
Buck, the judges eldest son, with whoI
by the way, the judge will form pal
nership and practice law when his der
ocratic successor is appointed in Jan
airy next. Storey is a studious your
B. man and under his fathers tuition h
:. already acquired a good knowledge
the law.
- The ad of the w. w. business cole
E. in this paper invites attention to
IS institution that is proving itself to
ir the best of it's kind. Its usefulness
training pupils for business life is atte